Iris’s Accumulation - Art/Life Institute - Kingston, NY - December 2019

Iris’s Accumulation is a cyclical, durational improvisational dance that explores fragmentation and accumulation as temporal processes. The work seeks to excavate somatic memory and to investigate whether accumulation can generate disintegration—and whether that disintegration can shift our relationship to being in time.

Performed for durations between two and four hours, the piece allows movement to layer, erode, and reconfigure itself. Over time, gestures lose their original clarity and become something else entirely. This slow transformation mirrors my interest in how trauma reorganizes time in the body, and how sustained attention can create space for re-patterning and change.